Quotes About Meditation

The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

Look within!... The secret is inside you.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

When you don't go within, you go without.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.